Improvement in railway-rail chairs



l @mail (giant `THOMAS G. BERING, 0F HARRISBRG, PENNSYLVANIA.

Lette-rs Patent No. 98,546, dated January e, 1870.

The Scheule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it anni; concern Be it known that I, THOMAS G. BERING, of Harrisburg, in the county of Dauphin, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Double-Face Railroad-Rail and Glamp-Cl1air; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexeddrawings, making a part of this specifica-tion, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1, of the drawings, is a top view of my in-l vention.

Figure-2 is a cross-section of the'same.

Figures 3 and 4 are details.

Myv invention relates to railroads, andconsists, mainly, in the construction and novel arrangement of devices, whereby a double rail is fixed in its chair, in such a manner that a firm foundation is secured.

The letter A, of the drawings, designates the rail, having two bearing-surfaces, a.' a', inclined to each other in such a manner that tangential lines to each surface would intersect each other at an aigle of seventy degrees, about, as shown in fig. 2. f

In the same view, the union of the two bearingrails is made apparent, and the elbow a thus formed is shown to be extended in the direct-ion'of a line, z z, bisecting the angle of seventy degrees above meutioned, the rail being isometrica] -with respect to this line z z`.

. The part b which rests upon the sill c of the chair,`

is made parallel with the face of the bearingrail.

B "designates the chair, made so as to clamp as well as support the rail.

rIhe lianch a of the rail is introduced under the clamping portion d of the chair, and takes at once its proper position, so as to bear upon the chair at the three points e, c, and c. v

A clamping-spike, h, is driven, through a recess in the chair m, into the tie D, and biting on the edge k of the rail, secures it and one side of thev chair firmly to the tie. The other side of the chair is in likemanner secured by the spike Z passing Vclown through the recess n..

The chair B is placed under the rail diagonally, so that its longest sides incline to the line of direction of the rail, at an angle of about seventy degrees. Further, in the use of these chairs, they are generall)r placed so that each chair inclines toward the one next to it.

It is apparent that this rail will have a firm and secure foundation in this chair, and that however much the edge It' of the raill may be worn, it will afford a sufficient hohl to the head of the spike h.

F is the fish-plate used to connect the ends of the rails. Its lower surface is made angular, to lit the neck of the rail.

`What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure.

by Letters Patent, is-

In combination with a double-bearing railroad-rail, I

having inclined treads a a',and rib a, the diagonal clamp-,chair B, having lip d, sill c, and inclinedface c', arranged to press the rib aiuto the corner e, as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the above, I have hereunto subscribed my name,`in the presence of two witnesses` THOMAS G. BER/ING.

-Witnesses: i

JOHN SAILER, FR. W. HAAs. 

